All you wanted or needed to know about everything?
Back in the 80s I saw an “oversize” book in my local library called something like - but not exactly – “All you ever wanted or needed to know about everything”, or something like that.
It was actually drawn in the style of a comic book, with several – probably 6 to 8 - panels on each page. The drawings were not coloured though, just very plain black and white. They were very rough and very simple.
It was rather like a history of the world with lots of science, philosophy, art and culture thrown in too. How thought and knowledge grew up into what we know today. The drawings were of a very poor quality, very hurried, but I can see that what the author was trying to do was to get ALL aspects of knowledge, from history to nuclear physics, into one illustrated book that was very easy to read – just like a kid’s comic, but for adults who wanted to improve their education! I stress that it was serious and not humorous. It had just about everything you could think of in it.
The author was definitely a man. I think he was a British author.
All you wanted or needed to know about everything?
Back in the 80s I saw an “oversize” book in my local library called something like - but not exactly – “All you ever wanted or needed to know about everything”, or something like that.
It was actually drawn in the style of a comic book, with several – probably 6 to 8 - panels on each page. The drawings were not coloured though, just very plain black and white. They were very rough and very simple.
It was rather like a history of the world with lots of science, philosophy, art and culture thrown in too. How thought and knowledge grew up into what we know today. The drawings were of a very poor quality, very hurried, but I can see that what the author was trying to do was to get ALL aspects of knowledge, from history to nuclear physics, into one illustrated book that was very easy to read – just like a kid’s comic, but for adults who wanted to improve their education! I stress that it was serious and not humorous. It had just about everything you could think of in it.
The author was definitely a man. I think he was a British author.
2006-10-30
08:56:52
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